While home prices improve across the country, more people are looking to buy or sell, and mortgage interest rates are still relatively low, how does Shreveport's housing market compare? Two local experts say Shreveport is pretty steady.

The struggle in Washington over whether to renew expired benefits for the long-term unemployed is as much about providing aid to 1.3 million out-of-work Americans as it is about drawing the first political line of an election year.

There are plenty of words and phrases that some people are sick of hearing -- including 2013's official Word of the Year. But are these popular sayings so offensive that they should be stricken from our collective vocabulary?